Timeline for What to do with "Which Linux Distro for my Old PC" questions of super-user
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| Feb 14, 2012 at 0:22 | comment | added | Camilo Martin | The Linux tag wiki looks a bit minimal, so it feels awkward to put in it what I know about a single (not very popular) distribution, and leaving out a lot of the most popular ones (plus, I'm not sure what would be the "minimum requirements" for something like Ubuntu ("it works" is quite relative). Maybe a mod or someone with more rep could ask such a template question? I don't know how it works, but I don't feel I'm in the position of asking it. | |
| Feb 13, 2012 at 15:50 | comment | added | random Mod | No, but consider contributing to the tag wiki for Linux perhaps @cam | |
| Feb 12, 2012 at 11:09 | comment | added | Camilo Martin | Was this implemented? Is this placeholder question anywhere? I wanted to add that Slitaz ran awesome for me on a hopelessly old P2. | |
| Jul 22, 2010 at 18:02 | history | migrated | from meta.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Apr 18, 2010 at 10:31 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse | I always have the same feeling @Kara... But it helps having people like Gnoupi, quack and random around on SU, they clean up all the mess! | |
| Apr 4, 2010 at 21:54 | comment | added | Kara Marfia | Wonderful idea. I'd love to take some time to do this with similarly themed SF topics. | |
| Apr 4, 2010 at 18:24 | comment | added | quack quixote | @random: you got a link to "Tyrell Flavour Linux"? i need it for my Bladerunner-themed server... | |
| Apr 4, 2010 at 17:03 | comment | added | Gnoupi | The "one answer per distribution" is quite good, because it allows to find information depending on each of them. However, this doesn't really answer the question, it is only a grouping of information. (And votes will only tend to suggest the most popular ones) Grouping by configuration would be more answering the question, providing answers like "what can I do with this configuration". But the problem is, it is too wide, and hard to include any kind of configuration. So I think only the "per distribution" is really possible, even if it's not ideal, it will be a good source of info. | |
| Apr 4, 2010 at 16:42 | comment | added | random | It might be a leader now, but let's give it time for others to chime in and offer a better version. @dou | |
| Apr 4, 2010 at 16:39 | comment | added | Douglas Leeder | Ok, by distribution is the clear favourite. If required the question itself could be edited with links by vague spec levels, but the answers themselves should be single distributions. | |
| Apr 4, 2010 at 16:08 | comment | added | Jon Seigel | @random: Agreed. | |
| Apr 4, 2010 at 16:05 | comment | added | random | Plus, if you list by distro, the votes can show which is more popular/possibly used by the community. @jon | |
| Apr 4, 2010 at 16:02 | comment | added | Jon Seigel | I like going by distro. Yes, people come to the site with computer specs, but indexing the information that way is going to be a total nightmare. You'll have to put each distro multiple times on the page, and there will always be edge case questions like "my hardware isn't exactly like the one on there." If there's just suggested minimums, the answer is more obvious to the user. | |
| Apr 4, 2010 at 15:56 | comment | added | random | So the reverse would need a little breakdown, don't you think? @dou | |
| Apr 4, 2010 at 15:48 | comment | added | Douglas Leeder | I think reversing it might be best - the person comes with a computer and wants a distribution, so it makes sense to index by computer (specs). | |
| Apr 4, 2010 at 15:36 | history | answered | random | CC BY-SA 2.5 |